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With Bruria Efune

ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 855

Category: Fundraiser

David Eliyahu, the 77-year-old soldier

כ״ח בכסלו ה׳תשפ״ה – December 29, 2024
David showing me a photo of his great nephew, Ofir Eliyahu, HYD.

It’s time to tell you about our friend, David Eliyahu, who recently celebrated his 77th birthday in the IDF reserves. We just met up with David at a chanukah party with his unit, on the Gaza border. He had met...

The first night of Chanukah

כ״ו בכסלו ה׳תשפ״ה – December 27, 2024
IDF ladies party in the Golan Heights

On the first night of Chanukah, a group of yeshiva students, organized by Rabbi Shalom Hertzel, drove up to a remote IDF post on the Golan Heights border. It was a long windy drive, far from any towns or villages,...

Imagine living surrounded by heroes

כ״ד בכסלו ה׳תשפ״ה – December 25, 2024
Pictured: IDF commanders ask Rabbi Hertzel to help them bring Chanukah to every soldier in the Golan Heights

Real heroes—the kind who give a shy shrug when you ask them for their story, as if what they do is only normal. The kind of hero whose eyes give away a look of both determination and softness, because this...

Wow! Thank you! We are now very close to our goal.

ב׳ במרחשוון ה׳תשפ״ה – November 3, 2024
Wow! Thank you! We are now very close to our goal.

Wow! Thank you! We are now very close to our goal. Once we reach the goal we will be able to get the full wish list of warm winter equipment for all the soldiers, effective helmets and ceramic vests for...

Protect IDF Soldiers Fighting Hezbollah

כ׳ באלול ה׳תשפ״ד – September 23, 2024
Protect IDF Soldiers Fighting Hezbollah

The war in Northern Israel is escalating fast. Thousands of IDF soldiers are positioned under heavy Hezbollah fire, having left their families to defend Israel. At Chamal Gederot, we’re getting dozens of requests every hour from senior IDF commanders with...

Thank You!

ג׳ באלול ה׳תשפ״ד – September 6, 2024
Rabbi Hertzel delivering generators to soldiers on the northern front lines

Thank you to everyone who donated to our previous campaign to help our IDF troops stationed on the northern border of Israel! We set up an exciting new partnership so that we can take good care of our soldiers up...

Heroes in the Forest: Part Two

כ״ח באב ה׳תשפ״ד – September 1, 2024
Yoav, Ehud, & Motti (with a glimpse of Alice in the corner), story coming up…

“I hear you like stories,” he said to me. “You need to meet my guys. Especially Ehud. But I warn you; he’s something else.” Ehud isn’t actually his name. But this small special forces unit needs to be extremely cautious...

Heroes in the Forest: Part One

כ״ה באב ה׳תשפ״ד – August 29, 2024
My husband giving cards from American kids to Moshe (L) and Emmanuel (C).

It was sunset on an August night, in a forest just a minute’s drive from the gate to Gaza. Gathered between the trees were about 150 combat soldiers; each with eyes that told a story of pain, love, faith—and most...

Before Tisha B’Av Began

ח׳ באב ה׳תשפ״ד – August 12, 2024
We also brought air conditioning units to help with the unbearable heat. Many soldiers have been suffering from dehydration, and even heat stroke, from wearing their uniforms in 35 Celsius (95 Fahrenheit) weather. Thanks to you, now they’ll have air conditioning in some of the bases in Gaza. (And in the winter, it will work for heating in the north.)

There was one very important thing that we had to do before Tisha B’Av began. Something that added a small spark of hope into tonight’s mourning. The IDF is expanding operations in Khan Younis. It’s a dangerous mission, in the...

Save Lives in Northern Israel

כ״ט בתמוז ה׳תשפ״ד – August 4, 2024
Save Lives in Northen Israel

Dear Readers, I haven’t had time to write their stories yet, but I promise I will soon. Our phones are buzzing nonstop—mine, my husband’s, and Alice’s. We’re having trouble keeping up. IDF soldiers in the north have left their families...

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